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I still remember the McDLT, as one of the first times in my then-quite-young life when I saw a company come out with a new product and large numbers of people respond with “oh HELL no”
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@jalefkowit I remember when they tried to make the Arch Deluxe a thing when I was a kid. I vaguely remember a guy in chef's clothing putting the bun on like you were getting something gourmet
@MLE_online My hometown was a test market for McPizza a few years later. That stuff was an affront against God
@jalefkowit i had no idea there was ever a mcpizza!
@MLE_online There was McSpaghetti at one point too. Weird times 😆
https://vinepair.com/cocktail-chatter/remembering-mcdonalds-mcspaghetti/
@jalefkowit ngl it seemed like a pretty good idea until I ate one
The McDLT was McDonalds’ solution to the problem of a hot burger patty wilting cold burger toppings like lettuce and tomato. The problem with their solution was that it involved delivering the burger to the customer in both sides of a giant polystyrene clamshell.
People were just starting to wake up to the dangers of single-use plastics, and McD’s didn’t realize how many people would see their exciting new plastic clamshell as something like drowning ducklings in a pool full of spilled oil
@jalefkowit I don't understand. The bun was on the hot side AND the cool side, so it got soggy from the tomato and also soggy from the beef oil? And the cheese was on the cool side, so it didn't actually get to melt onto the burger? This seems completely arbitrary, I hate it.
@Andres4NY Yep. You’ve got it 😆
@jalefkowit Damn. This is the kind of goofy-ass thing I'd expect from Kramer, not George.
I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible
Hot pink with whale skin hubcaps and all leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights
And I'm gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour getting one mile per gallon
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald's
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers
I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it
You know why? Because we've got the bomb, that's why
Two words: nuclear fucking weapons, okay?
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But it was the best. If only they could have done it without Styrofoam.
@jalefkowit the big complaint that I remember is that the top half of the bun is part of the “hot” but it stays cool with the lettuce and tomato, which were Not Great either
@flyingsaceur Yeah, on top of being an environmental catastrophe it was also just… not very good. But people are often willing to live with “not very good” from McDonald’s
@jalefkowit shitty iceberg lettuce and high impact tomatoes are why my scarred palate will only get burgers with ketchup, pickles, and cheese*
* may include mustard in New England
@jalefkowit I always blamed Jason Alexander.
@adammoe2022 He probably gets that a lot 😆
@jalefkowit One of my college roommates would go in and pronounce it “McDilt” when ordering just to see the confused looks from the workers.